updating gallery is a slow process

I have downloaded “bootleg” copies of the directional buttons for the photo gallery and have been slowly updating the wedding album. The wedding album is slow work due to the hand-scanning and editing process to remove dust particles and make the necessary color adjustments. For the dust removal, I am using PhotoStudio in classic mode… I haven’t found anything better besides the Photoshop 7.0 demo which expired a long time ago on our computer. For color adjustments and corrections, I am using The GIMP but I wasn’t satisfied with its dust-removal abilities. I think that must be because it has so many variables and I haven’t experimented with each of them to see what they do to get the results I want. I’ve found that with the default setting, the noise reduction feature softens the image too much. For some reason, theh older version of PhotoStudio is doing an awesome job on dust/noise removal. Two hours and I got 9 pictures scanned, editted, and uploaded to the web… I gotta find a faster way. I leave you now to go sleep. bye